I really enjoyed Kristi York Wooten's article on the importance of the National Black Arts Festival. For years this has been a space for African Americans artists working in all mediums to exhibit and share their work. The African American experience is integral to the history of this nation and a festival of this sort provides a platform for artists of the African diaspora. Without this festival many black artists would not have an opportunity to share their work and patrons of the arts (especially those that are interested in the African American experience) would be deprived of an opportunity to explore the black experience through the arts.